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Jim Scarff: I bought one shortly after it came out and LOVE it. My previous bag was a Lowepro Roadrunner AW which I still have, but very rarely use now. I bought the Kiboko 30L for international travel, but now use it all the time. The Roadrunner AW has wheels and is very secure....but very heavy (15+ lbs.?) The Kiboko 30L is about 4 pounds - a huge benefit.
I travel with a Canon 400mm DO lens, a 70-300mm L, 1.4X TC, a 7D and a 60D cameras, a medium weight carbon fiber tripod, flash, 18-135mm lens, etc. No problem fitting that all in/on the bag with quick access to everything.
The biggest challenge I see in travel outside the U.S. is the common 7 kg (15 lbs) weight limit for carry-on baggage. My experience is airlines enforce this. With the Kiboko I can pack my 2 cameras, and lenses and still be under. Plus although it is slightly longer than international length limits, it is soft and can easily be compressed to fit into the allowed volume. Never had a problem.
To RBFresno:
My 'facts' are simply based on the fact that I just flew by Lufthansa from Germany to UK carrying photo backpack weighting 21kg with me on a airplane. I was asked at checking if I take it as a hand luggage and that is all. Besides, your 'facts' do confirm at least BA part of what I said.
Jim Scarff: I bought one shortly after it came out and LOVE it. My previous bag was a Lowepro Roadrunner AW which I still have, but very rarely use now. I bought the Kiboko 30L for international travel, but now use it all the time. The Roadrunner AW has wheels and is very secure....but very heavy (15+ lbs.?) The Kiboko 30L is about 4 pounds - a huge benefit.
I travel with a Canon 400mm DO lens, a 70-300mm L, 1.4X TC, a 7D and a 60D cameras, a medium weight carbon fiber tripod, flash, 18-135mm lens, etc. No problem fitting that all in/on the bag with quick access to everything.
The biggest challenge I see in travel outside the U.S. is the common 7 kg (15 lbs) weight limit for carry-on baggage. My experience is airlines enforce this. With the Kiboko I can pack my 2 cameras, and lenses and still be under. Plus although it is slightly longer than international length limits, it is soft and can easily be compressed to fit into the allowed volume. Never had a problem.
Where did you get 7kg carry on limit from? I am flying in Europe and none of the airlines I used there had that limit (Lufthansa, BA etc) all state in fact that the weight of the carry on bag should be such that you yourself should be able to put it into overhead locker. The lockers on different planes also limited to hold certain amount of weight but usually it comes down to 20-23 kg per bag.
Jim Evidon: Note to Kodachrome 200 and others who do not see the sense of what they believe is an obsolete camera.
When I use my M8u while traveling' the deliberate shooting method imposed by the manual rangefinder followed by re-composition before shooting results in fewer shots over all and many more "keepers".
So don't be so fast to knock a RF digital camera. They have their place even if that is not in your place. I'll continue to use my faithful M8 because I cannot spend $9000 on an M9 since I prefer to retain domestic tranquility in the household. But Leica RF cameras are a superior product built like a tank and guaranteed to be a precision picture taking instrument long after other and less well built cameras have gone to their Chinese junkyard for recycling. They truly last forever which should satisfy any owner except those who need to buy the latest thing on the market every 6 to 12 months. So, maybe in the long haul, those who spend the $9000 really come out ahead, money wise.
> ...long after other and less well built cameras have gone to their Chinese junkyard for recycling.
When was the last time you had a pro grade not so expensive (comparing to Leica) SLR in your hands? Let me guess - probably never. A lot of them have build quality on par with Leica and are build to last.
Not sure about comparison yet but the author of the photos should really tidy up his bed in the morning and not end up with it showing up in the first shots as reflection ;-)))
RudivanS: As a pro, all I care for is an improved raw processing engine.
Raw Photo Processor (mac only), is still superior at rendering raw files.
You guys should really try RPP and its film profiles to see that both LR and DPP are not as good as you think they are.
Archiver: I have two licenses for Lightroom 3 and have only activated one. I am saving the second for when I upgrade my home computer, which will save me the bother of deactivating and reactivating somewhere else.
Lightroom is the only program I have found that gives me the image quality and 'look' that I like; no other raw processor gives the same look and IQ of Lightroom. This rather ties me in to Lightroom and means I may eventually have to pay big bucks to upgrade in the future, unless another raw converter comes to the party.
Lightroom does not use activation (yet) as Photoshop does. It simply accepts your serial number and does not require activation/deactivation. I never had a problem installing it on my upgraded PC with a new Windows 7 - just entered my serial and it was working.
Dookie Moogle wrote:
> I feel it's like Picasso painting a piece of artwork as a gift for a friend, and then he repaints the exact same painting as another gift for another friend. Nothing but a buttered bun.
It feels nothing of the kind - these are not a gifts after all but entries to the competition - unless explicitly stated by the challenge hosts, I see nothing wrong with somebody submitting his image to more than one challenge.